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Women Street Photographers & leica women foto project festival
APRIL 14-16, 2023
artspace ps109, New York City
schedule:
April 14, 6-8 Exhibition opening (LINK TO RSVP)
April 15, 11:30-4 Panel Discussions
April 16, 10-7 Photo Walks
Panel discussions
getting published
DATE: APRIL 15, 11:30AM-1PM
Location: Artspace PS109, 215 E 99 st, NYC 10029
Moderator: Melissa Breyer
With Nina Welch-Kling, Laylah Amatullah Barrayn, Ashly Stohl, Meryl Meisler
Books Signing by Authors 1pm-3pm
Join us for a panel discussion about the world of book publishing. Hear from our expert panelists as they share their experiences in the publishing industry, discuss common challenges authors face, and provide tips on how to successfully navigate the publishing process. Our panel will also cover topics such as how to choose the right publishing house, how to effectively market your book, and how to develop an author platform. This is a great opportunity to gain valuable insights and ask questions about the publishing process. All are welcome to attend.
2. Confidence and self-care
DATE: APRIL 15, 3PM-4:30PM
Location: Artspace PS109, 215 E 99 st, NYC 10029
Moderator: Tracey Woods
With Donna Ferrato, Gulnara Samoilova, Poupay Jutharat, Kiran Karnani
This panel discussion will focus on the importance of confidence and self-care. We will explore how to cultivate confidence in oneself and how to practice self-care in a meaningful way. We will cover a range of topics including: the importance of setting boundaries, strategies for overcoming creative blocks, tips for staying inspired, and how to deal with rejection. We will discuss how having confidence and taking care of ourselves can positively impact our lives, and our overall wellbeing. We will also discuss how to recognize and deal with low self-esteem and how to build resilience when faced with setbacks. Our panelists will share their unique insights and experiences and provide practical advice and strategies to help our audience members feel more empowered and confident in their lives.
WSP & Leica women foto project PHOTO WALKS
WITH NINA WELCH-KLING, POUPAY JUTHARAT, DOMINIQUE MISRAHI, XIMENA ECHAGUE
DATE: APRIL 16
Location: East Harlem
Leica Loan: Artspace PS109, 215 E 99 st, NYC 10029
10-11 Leica loan, socializing, coffee
11-1 Nina Welch-Kling - Light & Shadows
11-1 Poupay Jutharat - Slices of city life
1-3:30 Leica loan, coffee, socializing
3:3--5:30 Dominique Misrahi - Street Portraits
3:30-5:30 Ximena Echague - Capturing moments
5:30-7 Leica Demo, socializing with wine
About the Leica Women Foto Project
The Leica Women Foto Project is a platform by Leica Camera USA that serves to empower the female perspective and its impact on today’s visual stories. Conceived in 2019, the initiative has evolved to offer cash awards, mentorship and business opportunities and Leica equipment to serve the female perspective in the world of photography. The shape of a story is reactive to the storyteller’s perspective, developing a narrative that too often is reflective of individual truths. The Leica Women Foto Project encourages diversity and inclusion in visual storytelling to amplify voices typically underrepresented in photography, discovering the breadth of shapes formed by a single story.
ABOUT WOMEN STREET PHOTOGRAPHERS
Founding in 2017 by award-winning photographer Gulnara Samoilova, Women Street Photographers is an online and in-person community providing support and amplifying the work of for women artists from all races, ethnicities, creeds, generations, abilities, and sexual and gender identities around the world today.
Designed to expand commonly held notions of street photography by adopting an inclusive, expansive, non-traditional approach, Women Street Photographers provides platforms to showcase the work of amateur and professional photographers alike, including an Instagram feed, @WomenStreetPhotographers, website, traveling exhibitions, artist residency, inspirational film series, and photography book, Women Street Photographers (Prestel, 2021).
With 43 years combined experience as a documentary and street photographer, artist, darkroom printer, photojournalist, and photo editor for the Associated Press, Samoilova uses her experience and expertise to create visibility for women street photographers and empower them to follow their passion.
ABOUT ARTSPACE PS109
http://www.artspace.org/our-places/el-barrio-s-artspace-ps109
El Barrio’s Artspace PS109 is a community-driven project which has transformed an abandoned public school building in East Harlem into an arts facility with 89 units of affordable live/work housing for artists and their families and 10,000 square feet of complementary space for arts organizations.
PS109 is an impressive building. Designed by Charles B.J. Snyder and completed in 1898, this structure is five stories tall with a steeply pitched roof. Exterior details include several copper-clad cupolas and a wealth of decorative terra cotta.
PS109 contains 89 units of affordable live/work housing for artists and their families with 3,000 square feet available for a resident gallery in addition to 10,000 square feet of non-residential space for arts and cultural organizations on the ground floor and lower level.
ABOUT ARTSPACE
Artspace is non-profit organization that uses the tools of real estate development to create affordable, appropriate places where artists can live and work. They consistently develop these projects in ways that also support more stable, healthy communities anchored in existing assets. Because Artspace owns each of the projects it develops, they are able to ensure that they remain affordable and accessible to artists in perpetuity. Over the last three decades, Artspace has led an accelerating national movement of artist-led community transformation. With headquarters in Minneapolis and offices in Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, Seattle and Washington D.C., Artspace is America’s leading developer of arts facilities and has served as a consultant to hundreds of communities and arts organizations nationwide.
summit AT THE ARTSPACE PS109 GALLERY
The title wall
Ground floor gallery
Lower level of the gallery
Exterior of Artspace PS109 and the entrance to the galleries